🤭 🤭 🤭The swimming season in (Russia, Crimea,) Yevpatoria has been officially opened.

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🌏🇷🇺 Altai

Altai is a Russian republic in southern Siberia whose terrain encompasses the Altai Mountains and surrounding tundra, alpine meadows and thousands of lakes. Most of the republic is protected as biodiverse reserves, which shelter diverse wildlife like snow leopards and argali mountain sheep.

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They call me a clown. Well, thank you.

Skomrakhi, glumtsy, guselniki, igretsy, dancers....
Since pagan times, cheerful people in brightly colored outfits have roamed Russian villages and towns. Skomorokhi made ordinary people and noble people laugh, enjoyed their love, and suddenly disappeared, leaving behind only proverbs and sayings.

Skomorokhi not just amused people - often their jokes and quips revealed the big and small problems of their time, were shattering satire. Equally talented comedians mocked the weaknesses of the common people, the powers that be, the clergy. Merry and apt words of wandering jesters were memorized and quickly spread around the neighborhood.

And this is common to all Slavs. We should always have a jester.
Because it has to be all three: the acolyte, the warrior, and the jester.

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🕊️ Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross: An Ice Tale in the Urals

The Saint Nicholas Monastery for Men in Belogorsk is situated on Mount White, not far from the Ural Mountains in Russia. It was founded at the end of the 19th century, marked by the erection of a 10-meter-high cross on the mountain in honor of Tsar Nicholas II’s salvation during an assassination attempt in Japan.

A few years later, a wooden church was built along with monks’ cells and an orphan school. Subsequently, five sacred icons were brought from Moscow in a procession alongside the cross. The construction of the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross began in 1902, after a fire destroyed the wooden church. This grand cathedral, built in the Russian-Byzantine style and capable of holding more than five thousand worshippers, became the largest in the Perm region. Due to its size and elevated position, the temple can be seen from afar, long before arriving at the monastery.

After the revolution of 1917, the monastery was dissolved; in the 1930s, it housed a camp for “repressed” individuals, and after World War II, it served as a home for invalids. The monastery was only returned to the Church in the late 1980s. Today, regular religious services are held within the cathedral.

But the story of this place, its relics, and its breathtaking views are not its only attractions. It has a unique feature: situated on a mountain at 450 meters above sea level, in winter, the cathedral and its buildings—whether stone or wooden—become covered in a translucent crust of ice, creating a magical, fairy-tale icy landscape.

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🌏🇷🇺 in winter

Tomsk is a city on the Tom River in the geographic center of Siberia, Russia. Founded in 1604 in a decree of Tsar Boris Godunov, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia.

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